dear everyone who is currently working on a Thing, whatever that Thing may be,

good luck with the Thing. you can do the Thing. you will do the Thing. you just have to do the Thing.

best wishes,

someone who is also doing a Thing

#foxesInLove #comic

Source: https://foxes-in-love.tumblr.com/post/742025652354629632
Copyright: https://foxesinlove.net

So

what would be mine, in your opinion?

According to Apple’s lawyers, "no reasonable user would expect that their actions in Apple’s apps would be private from Apple."

I repeat to make it clear: According to Apple itself, no reasonable Apple user should expect privacy when using the device.

So let’s make it even more clear: if you expect basic privacy using your Apple device, you are "unreasonable" (= a fool).

(originally posted by @mysk )

First laughing moment of the day. 😄

#LotR #Funny

#Smithereen is about to become GDPR compliant 😅

I like my approach with deactivation period better than what others do. For example, @pixelfed deletes accounts immediately and it turns out people change their minds on this stuff sometimes.

#activitypub

Content warning: Trans stuff, nhs waiting lists Reveal/hide

When you toot a link, every #fediverse instance that sees the toot hits the website, pulling the page & any linked OpenGraph image.

As the Fediverse grows, the number of requests increases. Eventually, it may grow so large as to crush smaller servers. There's also the risk of a DDoS amplification attack: post a stream of toots all linking to different pages on a site & watch the entire Fediverse hammer the site continuously.

Maybe we need some kind of hierarchical caching before that happens?

remember, “source available” isn’t open source

if you can’t study, distribute, modify, and run the program as you wish, it’s not open source, it’s not libre

beware of source available products that call themselves open source, I certainly will

#FOSS #linux #Tech

suggest the most bananas headcanon, romantic pairings between ace characters or siblings, phantom parental relationships no one blinks

suggest someone might be trans and suddenly it’s all “how can you think they’re trans there’s zero evidence for that!”

hey fuckos? where’s the evidence they’re cis

Mods are asleep

Post positive and constructive stuff so that when they come back, they feel more comfortable resting and practicing self care

UwU

is kink-at-pride discourse going around again?

we've only seen the barest hints but we think we'll just offer this meme on the subject as a prophylactic

Going to hospital for non-covid treatment, and then getting covid in hospital, really is the modern day version of denying germ theory and hygiene while your patients all die from infection because the hospital doesn't think that those deaths are worth preventing.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-02-11/patients-catching-covid-hospitals-australia-infection-control/103442806

Too many patients are catching COVID in Australian hospitals, doctors say. So why are hospitals rolling back precautions?

Hospitals have become a strange new battleground in the fight against COVID, with doctors and public health experts concerned that too many patients are catching the virus — and an alarming number are dying — as a result of inadequate infection contr…

^{Hayley Gleeson (ABC News)}

Norf and Melvis at MFF23.

🐕: @norfdog
🐕: @melviswolf

#Furry #Furries #Fursuit #FursuitFriday #Photography #Anthro #MFF #MFF23

Content warning: Politics Reveal/hide

Cycling is ten times more important than electric cars for reaching net-zero cities https://theconversation.com/cycling-is-ten-times-more-important-than-electric-cars-for-reaching-net-zero-cities-157163

So when are Local Authorities going to start investing it? E-cars are about saving the motor industry not the planet.

#FuckCars

Cycling is ten times more important than electric cars for reaching net-zero cities

Active travel can help tackle the climate crisis earlier than electric vehicles – even if you swap the car for a bike for just one trip a day.

^{The Conversation}

The most fantastic fruit platter I’ve ever seen…

#Dragon #YearOfTheDragon #LunarNewYear

Two things we keep getting consistently wrong:

1⃣ Vastly overestimating future coal demand

2⃣ Massively underestimating future generation of solar PV

Love these graphics from @rethink_x

[to the tune of children's music]

the car goes vroom
the planet goes [sounds of screaming]